Brixham's Third Age Dance Class

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Brixham's Third Age Dance Class

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Established in 1992, the South West Film & Television Archive collection spans from 1893 to the present day containing more than 250,000 items. Formed from a variety of depositors, including broadcast news and programmes material from the Westward and TSW archive. In 2018 the archive collection transferred to The Box in Plymouth.

Brixham's Third Age Dance Class (Westward Diary)

The Box
Torquay
1978-03-17
Sound
6m

It takes two to tango in Torbay

Percy Manton enjoys dancing so much he is teaching ballroom dancing to a group of elderly residents in the Torbay area and Westward reporter Kay Avila joins the dance class for a tango lesson. Based in Brixham, the classes are aimed at socialising for the elderly, some who rarely leave their house.

Percy Manton is sixty- six and recently retired and has won awards for his dancing abilities. Now widowed, he shares his love of dance with others. Tango is a style of Latin ballroom dance which originated in the 1890s along the Rio de la Plata a natural border between Argentina and Uruguay.

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